Outside Linebacker · Washington Commanders

Leo Chenal

No. 54 · 5th season

New city, new defense, same linebacker with something to prove

Washington didn't just tweak its defense this offseason — it rebuilt the whole front seven from the ground up. That kind of overhaul creates openings, and Leo Chenal walked through one.

Chenal made his name in Kansas City, doing the quiet, essential work that linebackers do when a team is built to win. He was part of something that worked. Leaving that is its own kind of statement.

Now he lands in Washington, a defense that needed bodies and believed in his. He's not a reclamation project — he's a piece of a new puzzle, placed deliberately.

What he does with the room is the whole question. A rebuilt defense gives everyone a clean slate. For Chenal, that's either an invitation or a test, and probably both.

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